sparkalina

I owned this for three months. While scanning was organized and fast, the software is overly complicated with labels, folders, more labels. It's almost too many fields. Too much scanner for my needs. I sold it.

This device is great for people who need absolutely accurate overly organized receipts or documents. The business card scanner function is great, but I still like having a pile of business cards from other people, I never looked at the electronic versions. I can see an accountant or lawyer really getting off on this over-hyped machine.

KarenMarie

jtw90210

Bought one last Woot! and it does what I want, double. First, it scans double-sided, with a relentless feeder. Second, it has two modes, PDF where you can scan and file things yourself in standard format, and Hoarder, where your stuff disappears into a big specialized database.

Is it the best $250 I ever spent? Probably not. That would be drinks at Mickey's. But it's nowhere near the worst $250.

tim74

I'm amazed at the lock on prices these things have. I scan just about everything except receipts to pdf.

But since my software (PaperPort 9) and sheet fed scanner (Visioneer Strobe Pro) peaked long ago, newer versions are lousy, don't exist or don't run in current operating systems, I just use them both inside a WinXP virtual machine using Virtual Box. I just cleared out a bunch of stuff this week. There's no auto labeling and tagging but I can keyword search anything since everything is OCR indexed.

Lechugon

Checked Woot tonight as everynight and Woot scammed me by telling me I had won a prize. I simply had to fill out a survey. After gleaning all my personal information they led me on a many paged sales pitch and it was impossible to proceed to the end without buying something that was advertised in the scam. They end up with my personal info and I end up with nothing. I am disappointed in woot because I thought they had more integrity.

ThunderThighs

Lechugon wrote:Checked Woot tonight as everynight and Woot scammed me by telling me I had won a prize. I simply had to fill out a survey. After gleaning all my personal information they led me on a many paged sales pitch and it was impossible to proceed to the end without buying something that was advertised in the scam. They end up with my personal info and I end up with nothing. I am disappointed in woot because I thought they had more integrity.

I think you may want to check for some malware there. We don't do that. We do have integrity when it comes to our site and your privacy/security.

normanm4

Amen, this definitely creates "more work" when trying to create less work! Get a scansnap.

sparkalina wrote:I owned this for three months. While scanning was organized and fast, the software is overly complicated with labels, folders, more labels. It's almost too many fields. Too much scanner for my needs. I sold it.

This device is great for people who need absolutely accurate overly organized receipts or documents. The business card scanner function is great, but I still like having a pile of business cards from other people, I never looked at the electronic versions. I can see an accountant or lawyer really getting off on this over-hyped machine.

mkdr

We have the NeatReceipts mobile version and love it. Of course, when offered on woot as a refurb, it is 1/3 the price of this. I'd love this, but we just don't need it, with what we already have and two color 3 in 1 printer/copier/scanners.

With a home based business, it is the easiest way to keep track of all of our reciepts and expenses. My husband is not the most tech savvy, and he is the one that needs to use the equipment. He likes the software (which is the same) a lot and it makes tax time a lot easier.

forever fighting the urge to buy something just because it is cheap and cool...wait, it's cheap and cool, let me click that big yellow button!

asanti

Lechugon wrote:Checked Woot tonight as everynight and Woot scammed me by telling me I had won a prize. I simply had to fill out a survey. After gleaning all my personal information they led me on a many paged sales pitch and it was impossible to proceed to the end without buying something that was advertised in the scam. They end up with my personal info and I end up with nothing. I am disappointed in woot because I thought they had more integrity.

Happened to me once when I went to fanfango instead of fandango.com once.... I'm sure I something similar happened to you.

AUTbonerman

danwat1234 wrote:A waste of money. Just buy a reliable all-in-one printer/copier/scanner/faxer and use good free OCR software to convert text on pages to ASCII text and to organize the scans.

You'll save a ton of money!

Heck, buy a used all-in-one to save even more

What you're paying for here is as much the software as the hardware. I've been using a MR Mobile scanner to scan my receipts for several years and have found it very useful. I'm buying this one today because the mobile scanner is very slow and I'm looking forward to faster, hopper-fed scans. I've tried the AIO method and it sucks compared to the NeatWorks method.

(note that Woot! will get an affiliate commission if you buy with that link - smart move on their part with embedded URLs! Your price is no different but Woot is making up for potentially losing a regular sale. I like it.)

hibliss

I have one of these at work that someone else ordered. It is ok, I use it primarily for receipts to track expenses. I would like to use it more for scanning business cards, but the OCR is pretty weak compared to other competing packages.

CardScan is my preferred business card scanner and integrates well with Outlook. The Neat software does integrate with Outlook, but it is a bit clunky.

All things considered, this might be worth $250 for use as a filing system for receipts and clearing clutter. If you rely on OCR, I would skip it personally.

nancy33498

Buy a brand new Fujitsu ScanSnap for a few cents more. They are far superior. http://www.amazon.com/Fujitsu-S1300i-ScanSnap-Sheet-Fed-Document/dp/B008HBFADQ/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1349549603&sr=8-4&keywords=fujitsu+scansnap+s1500

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